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Episode 3093 - The Scott Adams School 02/12/26

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Episode 3093 - The Scott Adams School 02/12/26", an episode of Real Coffee with Scott Adams published February 12, 2026 (1 h 10 min, about 11,659 words). It mentions 11 people, works and ideas, including Brian Rameli, Artificial Intelligence, Scott Adams, 5,000 days, Owen Gregorian.

What this episode is about

The discussion features Erica and her co-hosts, including returning guest Brian Rameli, as they navigate a casual and humorous introduction to the "Scott Adams School." They remind listeners of the distinction between this show and "Coffee with Scott Adams," encourage subscriptions to Scott Adams' Locals channel for exclusive content, and reflect on the unpredictability of live broadcasting.

Key takeaways

  • When tech fails spectacularly, laughter becomes the only reliable connection—your Wi-Fi might drop, but humor doesn't.
  • Simultaneous sipping: an unlikely form of community bonding that blends neuro-linguistic programming with morning coffee rituals.
  • In a world driven by precision, embracing chaos can be anti-fragile—see how mishaps can foster genuine interaction.
  • Scott's moments of technical calamity serve as reminders: life's unpredictability often sparks the most engaging conversations.
  • Grief and rediscovery of play can challenge norms—embracing emotional recovery is the ultimate work-life balance revolution.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Brian Rameli, Owen Gregorian, Scott Adams, 5,000 days
  2. – 20:00: Teal Swan, Artificial Intelligence, Scott Adams
  3. – 30:00: 5,000 days
  4. – 40:00: Elizabeth Kubler Ross, Joseph Campbell, 5,000 days
  5. – 50:00: 5,000 days, Owen Gregorian, Elizabeth Kubler Ross
  6. – 1:00:00: Scott's Locals
  7. – 1:10:00: 5,000 days, savewisdom.org

Notable quotes from "Episode 3093 - The Scott Adams School 02/12/26"

  • And watch as many streams as you want, soak in the material, and we encourage you to subscribe to Scott Adams Locals channel where we have some exclusive interviews lined up in the future.
    about Scott's Locals · at
  • Brian, did you resist doing the simultaneous sip initially?
    about Brian Rameli · at
  • Tend to look at the car crash. we slow down and say, Oh, that's built into our programming. And Scott was really, if you read his books, very much into why we do that. Why are we fixated on certain things?
    about Scott Adams · at
  • And we want to be in a home. So, we build a home. We use tools to serve humanity. AI is a tool and it's a co-c collaborator. Now, there's a lot more to it than just a hammer, but again, anything could be formed into a weapon.
    about Artificial Intelligence · at
  • I think one of the most universal and it's hard to take is Teal Swan. Teal is a victim of trauma and she's overcome her trauma tremendously. it's very apppropo with what's going on with Epstein files and things of that nature.
    about Teal Swan · at
  • That you can actually have a guide a map. So, Elizabeth Kubler Ross and the five stages of grief is a really good mythology and a really good method because it's been around…
    about Elizabeth Kubler Ross · at
  • It works. This is the world we're in now. We have to choose how we are going to deal with it. I'm giving you 5,000 days. I'm giving you the early warning.
    about 5,000 days · at
  • Saying your answers in your own voice into your own recorder that never goes on the internet. I urge everybody to start doing that today because your wisdom is valuable. The…
    about savewisdom.org · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Brian Rameli — Person · Main guest / primary speaker · 3 mentions · first at
    Returning guest presenting his '5,000 days' framework about AI-driven labor disruption, trauma/grief processing, and self-sovereignty/likeness rights.
  • Scott Adams — Person · Referenced figure / namesake of the show; archival clip source · 3 mentions · first at
    Central reference point: the show is framed as 'Scott Adams school'; his prior content, persuasion/hypnosis framing, and legacy/likeness concerns anchor multiple segments.
  • Owen Gregorian — Person · Co-host / primary interlocutor · 4 mentions · first at
    Asks the core questions that structure Brian’s argument (trauma/grief first, then purpose and paths forward), and summarizes actionable strategies (AI conductor/curator vs. trades).
    You know what I took away from your latest post I think was that one path is to become the conductor of the AI to really embrace the tools, become an expert in using them and…
  • Elizabeth Kubler Ross — Person · Referenced expert / grief framework originator · 3 mentions · first at
    Referenced for the five stages of grief as a model Brian applies to job/identity loss in AI disruption (moving people out of denial toward acceptance).
  • Joseph Campbell — Person · Referenced expert / author used as framework · 2 mentions · first at
    Invoked to support the 'hero’s journey/monomyth' framing as a map for navigating identity change and societal transition.
    All cultures. And Joseph Campbell looked at all the mythologies and myths of all these cultures and tied them together into the mono myth and the hero's journey which we are…
  • Teal Swan — Person · Referenced expert / example in trauma discussion · 2 mentions · first at
    Cited by Brian as a difficult-but-useful resource for confronting trauma 'head-on' (contrasted with ongoing paid therapy models).

Companies & orgs

  • Scott's Locals — Company · Business focus · 2 mentions · first at
    Platform mentioned for exclusive content and community engagement related to Scott Adams.

Products & tech

  • savewisdom.org — Product · Recommendation · 1 mention · first at
    A project by Brian Rameli aimed at preserving personal wisdom and insights.

Concepts & topics

  • Artificial Intelligence — Concept · Core topic · 2 mentions · first at
    Central theme of the episode, discussing the impact and future of AI on society and work.
  • 5,000 days — Concept · Key argument · 7 mentions · first at
    Brian Rameli's framework for understanding the transition period towards a post-scarcity world.

Media & podcasts

  • Coffee with Scott Adams — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    A separate media product from Scott Adams, mentioned for its extensive content library.
    Hours of videos. Thank God he gave us all that wisdom. so please know that Coffee with Scott Adams, you can go back and watch as many streams as you want, soak in the material…

Full transcript with timestamps

All right, let's get going. We make sure everyone goes live. I see locals. All right, Sergio, tell me when you see YouTube live.

I see Gracie. I see Montreal Galaxy. A, we love you. Good morning. YouTube is live.

YouTube's live. Rumble, you're in the house. YouTube is not live. Oh, we're waiting for YouTube. We miss you, Paul Collider. YouTube user on.

Oh, wait, wait, no, we're live. We're good. Okay, good. [snorts] You guys, welcome. Hi, it's me, Erica. Um, I'm joined today by Owen Gregorian, the voice. We have Sergio right there, and Marcela, our beautiful Marcela. We have returning guests today, one of our fan favorites, Brian Rameli. Uh you guys, I just want to remind you as always, this is the Scott Adams school, which is completely different than Coffee with Scott Adams, which lives on its own in thousands of hours of videos. Thank God he gave us all that wisdom. Um, so please know that Coffee with Scott Adams, you can go back and watch as many streams as you want, soak in the material, and we encourage you to subscribe to Scott Adams Locals channel where we have some exclusive interviews lined up in the future.

You're going to be very excited about some of them. You might even see um this guy, how do I point next to me in one of them also in an indepth conversation about something very important. Um, so before we get to that, we're gonna have a simultaneous sip. And I just want to say it's a little throwback to when things just don't always go right with Scott. So Shelley, take it away for us.

I'm sorry, Erica. I did not realize that you wanted me to do the I didn't put it on. Sorry, I didn't get one from you. Oh, okay. Let You know what? See how perfect. How apppropo. Let me pull it up.

Mhm. [clears throat] That's so funny. See, things don't always go right. And that's what it was today. Let's go. So, in the meantime, let's get it here. Who wants to riff? Does everybody have their flask ready? Everybody's ready. Yay.

Somebody find some papers to bang on a desk. Yes, someone bang some papers. I banged the book.

That's the book. Oh my gosh. Okay, here we go. [snorts] Let's search. No pressure. No pressure, Eric.

No, I don't feel any pressure. No, I love Gmail just closed. It's all good, you guys. D I feel like Scottum.

Brian, did you resist doing the simultaneous sip initially? Yes, but I got it. I did too for a while.

Yeah, you did. Yeah. It's funny. A number of people have asked me about that, but I I finally got it I think um maybe a couple of weeks in because I wasn't sure where he was going with it. Same thing, Owen, for you. Yeah. Well, he kind of introduced it at least eventually as like this is my way of hypnotizing you. And so I'm like, well, I'm not going for that. I just I had that natural response I think that probably a lot of people had were like, I'm not doing it. But I think there are probably at least a few people that just never did it and I think they missed out.

Yeah. It's neural linguistic programming and I I detected it pretty early on. I always found it interesting. Mhm.

Okay, I got it. You guys, this is the perfect sip for what's happening right now. Okay, ready? I'll hit you guys hit mute and we're going to play Scott. And here we go. That's a terrible tattoo. Did you just disappear when when I tap my when I tap my papers? Did the picture just disappear? Cuz it it threw me out of the app. How could everything go wrong? How's that even possible? That all I did was this. I won't do it again.

And it turned off the app. This is so beyond this is so beyond possible. I mean, we're into some statistical impossible situation here. They can't be that all the apps died at the same time. They couldn't all be broken at once, could they? I know there's a massive incompetence problem, but that's pretty impressive. Anyway, [clears throat] if you'd like to take your experience today up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brain, none of it makes sense today, does it? Like the the preamble doesn't make any sense because the uh the starting assumption is that things went right. So, the preamble doesn't make sense.

Let's just do the let's just do the silent let's just surrender. Shall we surrender to the fact that everything's just going to go wrong today? Just absolutely everything's going to go wrong. Sip to that. Sometimes it goes that way.

How perfect was that for what happened just before? I thought, "Oh my gosh, that's a little wink and a nod right there." But we did love we did love when things went wrong because it was just always funny and I'll sip to that. So you guys, um I did send a link out on X yesterday um for Brian's series and a lot of you said that you have been reading it and enjoying it. Some of us are frightened and scared. And there is a whole special section on Scott also and his influence. And I'm just looking because I'm going to botch the name. It's 5,000 days to help me Brian ch to

to the end to the end of work as we know it. No, wait. Okay. As you know it. Okay. So with that, we welcome back Brian and you guys, Sergio is going to be watching your comments in YouTube and Marcela is going to be watching locals to see if you have any questions for Brian as we talk. But you guys really loved him last time and everything he had to say. So we said you have to come back again and again and again. So Owen, I'm going to let you start because I know you had something ready you wanted to ask Brian. Well, my first question I think relates to some of the earlier posts in the series where you're saying essentially a lot of what people need to do is work through grief and go through like rediscovering play. And it was all focused on emotional recovery essentially like processing trauma and things like that. And that surprised me just because I guess as a technologist I kind of expected, okay, here's the plan.

Here's what you need to do. Let's go do it. And instead, you're kind of taking this left turn into you can't really do anything until you've healed yourself. Can you talk a little bit about why you think that's so important?

Owen, thank you. Uh, brilliant. [clears throat] And thank you for having me back. I'm so honored. I I I so miss Scott and I miss the audience. So, okay. So, I don't believe that we can get through the next 5,000 days. I call it the interregum. It's a Latin word, and this is when the old king dies and a new king needs to be crowned. It's the only word I can find in this middle space where the end point is going to be abundance. It's not going to be utopia, but it's going to be abundance. And I I'll just briefly touch upon it economically and philosophically. and then I'll get into the the trauma philosophically.

Um what's going to happen is there's going to be scaling of AI and robotics to such a level where AI is building AI and robots are building robots. Now let's get away from the Terminator and negative side of it. Let's just look at the center line. The center line is everything's going to become inordinately less expensive. Even the robot right at some point and I know the initial reaction mine everybody is going to be I'm never going to afford that. They are going to control it. It's going to be so inexpensive. There's no control anymore. Right? This is why we're seeing the wheels come off the cart. There's a lot of reasons why the world is the way it is and people in power are concerned because the control mechanisms are no longer there. That is scarcity.

We lived through a world of scarcity, but we had a world of abundance at one time. Most of human existence was abundance. And what I really mean by that is if you were hungry, you went to a tree and you pulled an apple off, right? If you were hungry, you pulled up a root. If you were thirsty, you went to the water hole. Now, I'm not saying there wasn't adversity. Adversity is always going to exist. But we had a mentality of abundance. And it's very much if you go biblically and you go to the garden of Eden, the the story there is really about abundance. And the knowledge is what got you out of that abundance, right? And I don't want to go too deep into that. We can maybe at some point. But where we are heading is the things we thought that were really expensive are going to become less expensive.

And this includes even energy, right? Because as AI continues to build more AI, it's going to solve m many more of the problems or surface the answers that we already had. And either we didn't know it or it wasn't widely available for all of us to know it. And that's going to come whether or not people in power want that to happen because this is a democratization of cognitive intelligence and it's a democratization of robotics in labor. Now is that going to happen tomorrow? No. We we barely have a a bipeedal humanoid robot. But it will happen. And so a lot of people ask me, how do I know the future? It's very easy. You find the point in the future and you work your way backwards. You never work forward. So, you're never looking in the rearview mirror. You're looking forward and then you're coming back. Okay? It's the middle point that is always going to be random. The end point is always going to be clear. We

will get to that point. And a lot of people like me were raised on dystopian movies. And so, we always tend to look at the car crash. we slow down and say, "Oh, that's built into our our programming." And Scott was really, you know, if you read his books, very much into why we do that. Why are we fixated on certain things?

When it comes down to our fear, our fear is the robot's going to take over. It's going to be Terminator. Yeah, that variations of that are going to happen but the end result is there will be an equilibrium. It's that process of reaching equilibrium. Psychopaths and sociopaths are always going to exist. They are a very small portion of society. They tend to get into power. But the beautiful thing about where we're going is we we are dethroning them by the democratization of these tools. That's why you don't shun the tools, you use them. And if they're using it as a hammer to bang people over the head, fine. If they're using the fire to burn people, fine. We, the majority, are going to use it to build a house, to build a structure. We use the hammer as a tool to to let us not have to suffer the consequences of what happens with weather. You know, we get a little cold and we want to be in a home. So, we

build a home. We use tools to serve humanity. AI is a tool and it's a co-c collaborator. Now, there's a lot more to it than just a hammer, but again, anything could be formed into a weapon. Do not fall for the reframe that this is something that's going to get you because your fear is your disempowerment. Now, why do I get into trauma? Because from 0 to 8, most of us have experienced some form of trauma. uh some have it as external scars, some have it as uh internal scars, but everybody experiences that it defines the trajectory of our life whether we like it or not. And when you are going through trauma, you have to deal with the trauma you had first because that's the format you use to deal with the future. And the traumatic period that we're going through right now, people are losing their jobs. People who have worked their entire careers to make a line that looks beautiful, that line can now be duplicated by an AI

in 30 seconds. Who are you if you no longer are your job? You have to face that existential definition. We in the industrial revolution have defined ourselves by what we do. In fact, our very names were what we did. Cooper, a barrel maker, right? All of these different, you know, blacksmith, goldsmith, all of these different professions literally were our name. What if all of a sudden you can't make a living from the things that you spent your life doing? That is a crisis and nobody is talking about it. I chose to talk about it. And some of the people who are talking about it unfortunately are indoctrinating you into a system of medication and forever therapies. You know, come come back for your next half hour therapy session. We'll work through this grief and then we'll do it next week and then next week and forever.

That's not how you solve trauma. Trauma has to be dealt with by facing it fullon. And I in part one I open up a series of books that you can use to face trauma. Um I think one of the most universal and it's hard to take is Teal Swan. Uh Teal is a victim of trauma and she's overcome her trauma tremendously. Uh it's very apppropo with what's going on with Epstein files and things of that nature. Her trauma was uh was tremendous. I've gotten to sit through seminars and I've gone through her training sessions um to try to understand it. Um let me tell you it it is not normal psychotherapy.

It is about facing trauma headon. And what we do as humans is we encase our trauma into a little ball and there are layers of onion and we hold it deep inside and we don't look at it. And that's the ghost that's always going to chase you the rest of your life. A lot of us guys who choose technology and mostly guys that do this, um, we want to rationalize an irrational world. I, as a, as a kid, wanting to go to Princeton, wanting to become a subatomic particle physicist, I wanted the world to be black and white. I wanted it to be logical, one or zero. I wanted to be very clear. Don't give me your fuzzy, stupid explanations of woo woo garbage.

I wanted to be factual. I thought I understood what a fact was and what the truth was. And when you really really dive into subatomic particle physics and understand quantum mechanics, you realize you don't understand quantum mechanics and you don't understand physics. What you have is an observation of something and your observation is only as good as the tools that you use to perform that observation. On my hand is trillions of creatures. Do you see them? No. If I went up to you in 1760 and I said, "Hey guys, there's there's trillions of creatures on my hand." They'd lock me up. I might even have evidence that there are trillions of creatures on my hand, but it's not evidence that the crowd would approve of. Um, and then an invention takes place, the invention of the microscope.

And literally the person that discovered this almost committed suicide. The whole idea of pasteurization, the whole idea of a surgeon washing his hands before he goes and delivers a baby after dealing with gangarine. You got to remember if you study history, a surgeon thought you were woo woo out of this earth crazy that you would dare to tell him to wash his hands after dealing with one patient another. What are you talking about? There's nothing on my hands there. Well, there's a little smear of blood. Let me take that off.

That's fine. Oh, the puss. Okay, that's gone. Now I'm good. Let's go deliver a baby. This is how dumb we are when we become arrogant. We always think that this is a generation that knows everything and everything that is in the past, well, they were just stupid and now we're smarter. Well, guess what? Everything that we think is a fact today is probably going to be laughed at in less than 50 years. because new tools of observation will allow us. So that makes you humble and that's the humbling prospect of it. Now getting back to the emotions, we think that we have our emotions in check. Look at me. I'm doing fine.

Everything's okay. Just don't rub me the wrong way and everything. We become reactive because we have coping skills. Our coping skills are developed when we're children. It it is not rocket science. We have to develop coping skills or we wouldn't be here right now. We are the the definition of a survivor of coping with whatever we thought was trauma. Now your trauma and my trauma is going to be marketkedly different. My trauma might be I stuck my finger in the light socket and that really messed me up. But it doesn't matter to me. That trauma is just as big as the trauma of being tortured or a parents that didn't care, who were drug addicts, who put their cigarettes out on me or however bad you want to imagine. That is trauma, but it's very real. It doesn't change in the context of the human body. And that's very important because we we tend to be scorekeepers when we look at somebody else's problems and we look

at ours and say, "Well, mine's mine are worse." And then we find somebody in the street who has no legs and they're barely getting by and say, "Well, there's there's our worst." And yes, of course, you know, there are different metrics that we use universally, but internally they're very real. If you don't deal with them, and I mean really deal with them, when you face what we're facing, and I I I don't want to be doom and gloom because it's not about that. It's just everything we thought was solid is going to change and we as we get older resist change because it's the only thing that we can hold on to that makes sense of a crazy world like when I wanted the world to be one and zeros and be logical and you know come on you guys up down strange quarks what are you talking about if I see it it's there and if I don't see it it's not there and there's a collapse of a wave function and uh An atom 12

billion miles away can be affected by an atom right here. Faster than the speed of light, you know, super luminal is how they would term it. I try not to use nomenclature. Um, what are you crazy? And then when you realize it is true, then you realize how much you don't know. And we don't know enough about the psyche. And the people who are in control of access to our psyche have a meter and a credit card slot. Folks like Scott democratized this. He democratized in his books. He was showing us patterns to understand and ways to see the world not by paying a turd gold but by reframing things into the proper context. Because what your mind believes you conceive. Everything that ever was made was an imagination is somebody's mind before it was made. And this includes yourself. So part of the way you fix yourself is absolutely accepting the fact that you you you face some sort of trauma. Now that doesn't

mean you victimize and label yourself. I am diametrically opposed to victimizing and labeling. I don't think anybody is a whatever. I think you have those tendencies which you can change. labeling is a disempowering system and tool that I think um you know Scott would reframe into saying well no that's how I make myself stronger by you know I had this impediment with my voice well I found a way to reframe it so that now I can speak um and we're going to all have to face that but what's different this time than any other point in history and myself and Owen I'm sure all you guys study history quite a bit is we've never had this happen at such a massive scale all at once with the backdrop of absolutely chaotic economics, philosophies, and just direction of life. So, the only thing that most people had to hold on to that they thought was solid was their career or their skill set. And I'm going

to tell you very clearly, you need to hear it. It's still extremely valuable. And I don't care if an AI can do it 10 times better. It can't do it like you. Right? And the metric that you're using is wrong. Right? I did not fall apart when my slide rule I learned to use a slide rule. Right? I can do different. I can do any type of equation on slide roll within reason. You know, I need a chalkboard too. When a calculator and the spreadsheet came along, I didn't fall to pieces. I had a skill set that I learned mechanical. I had a round slide rule I like to use and I said to myself, well, I don't need to use this anymore, but I still have that skill. And there was some value that was achieved by me by learning that skill. And in the post ab in the post scarcity world, in the abundance world, which we are going to get to, I say it's 5,000 days when we finally see that approximately, you know, 2040.

I pick 5,000 days because I'm a marketer and, you know, it sounds cool. No, it's it's it's the best that one could imagine. And it it's designed for people to actually focus on the fact that no matter how many hand grenades are going off around them because you're going to see people in power freak out. They're going because you freedom of speech, um, control of information, hierarchies of Ivy towers, you can't pronounce that. We have control over the information flow. That's what's breaking down. I have local AIs that I can if the whole internet comes down, I can still solve most of the world's problems within a model that fits into my laptop and very soon a Raspberry Pi that cost me 60 bucks. So, the world can end and I still have the sum total of knowledge.

But that doesn't necessarily solve all the problems. Guess what? You and I for at least 25 years had access to all the information in the world. It was called the internet. And when I was a kid and if you were to look at all of the people we stand on their shoulders that built knowledge, they prayed for the day that they could have access to all the information and abundance we have access to right now. Why hasn't it changed? In fact, if you really want to look at the world, it's gotten worse. Over the last 30 years with all of this information and all of this connectivity and all this socialization electronically, society has gotten by every metric worse.

I thought you said not to be scared about that. It's not it's an observation because

we're like we're like the cats with infinite lives. We're always going to land on our feet. Humanity is always going to overcome the trauma that's in front of us. That is an absolute certainty. That's my guiding light working backwards. I can go into hours of explaining why that's true. G give me give me some grace to say maybe he's right, but that's the end point. And I I I and I believe that with every fiber of my being. Uh I'm talking about the grand arc of humanity. I'm not saying that everything in between will work. And I I will say at least this.

Are you here right now? Yes. You are the sum total product of all of your ancestors that have gone through unimaginable traumas to make sure that you are here right now at this moment. So whenever somebody gets a little banged up and a little depressed, look backwards at all those people that made you become here right now. Now they might not know you but they knew that that was what they were sacrificing for. That is humanity, right? And we can sit here and we can get so angry at the world saying, "Look how bad it is. Look how ugly." You want to know something?

That is a small minority. The majority of us love each other, care about each other. We might speak different languages. We might have a minor 1% difference in the way we might view the world, but we all want to be left alone, to live a happy, healthy life, to raise children, and to let them live a happy, healthy life. And that's the universal directive, if you will. And that's how we got here. And that's how we get there. That's not going to change. No matter no matter how many eugenicists or cyborg loving people think that they're going to slap themselves 50/50 with a computer and and and and human biology.

Guess what? We don't even know what the brain is. We don't know where consciousness comes from. And you're going to tell me you're going to cyborg yourself into the singularity and you don't even understand what that is. I'll tell you what, being locked up, locked up inside a robotic silicone world is the very definition of hell.

If you want to get biblical, that's what hell looks like. Um, and I can get into the reasoning of that. So coming back trying to reel myself in. We have to deal with our trauma and the way we're dealing with the world right now is a direct reflection of how we dealt with our childhood. And again, you're not a victim, but you must start looking at the structures you use to solve crisises that are in front of you. How not to become so reactive. Meaning, do you shrivel up in a ball and cry or do you say, "I need to adjust the way I think about this to move forward."

Exactly. All of the above. And look what social media has done to us. It's made us become so hyperreactive that, oh, I'm going to make this comment right now, this liart or this, you know, rightwing, you know, whatever your your your flavor is, right? That is a disempowering state of mind. That's a reptilian state of mind. And you don't ever achieve anything but a slight hit off your crackpipe because what it's doing is it's a neurotransmitter cascade that's dealing with a fear that you have and you're projecting it outward to something very real. I mean there are incredibly bad things going on and we're finding more and more every couple of hours, right? You know, oh wow, they did that.

Okay, you know, this is hard to deal with. I don't think we're ready to really know what really was going on, right? And if and if and if you don't adjust your ability to cope with this, I'm not saying accept it. I'm not saying nullify it. I'm not saying don't get mad. I'm saying channel your energy. Understand why it's disempowering for you to fly off the handle. understand why you see a news program having all these blinking lights and banners going by and special alert. Why is it like that? Why is it today? If you go back, I'm an archivist.

I have probably more VHS. Uh, no. I'm trying to do the best I can. Um, I have more VHS tapes of news programs than probably anybody. And you know, it wasn't until Ted CPP's Night Line and the Iranian crisis that we ever had these urgent every night day 200 of the hostage crisis and it became a serial addictive doom loop cycle and it be and it became the archetype of what all CNN and all news programs have become to constantly have us in the most disempowered state and that is a reactive day, right? Always reacting, not acting, always reacting, always stumbling into something. Uh, from one crisis to the next, we are all guilty of it. If you're thinking, "Oh my god, what's Brian saying? I am guilty." We are all guilty of it. So, that's the ele that's one of the elephants in the room.

How do we stop doing that? Well, AI is going to help us do that because it's going to help us create again, it's the right AI. I am more into local AI, but at the very least use Grock more than any other platform because it comes closer to whatever um you would want with a truth seeeking AI platform coming from a corporation. Um but we we'll have these tools that are going to empower you and we'll detect the different um uh techniques that are being used to excite your uh neurotropic release of urgent you know oh serotonin you know what am I doing here aggression you know all of these different things if we don't get out of that state we will never make rational decisions in our life and We've been victimized of it for quite a long time. Most definitely the last five years. We're a chemistry experiment and we've proven that that experiment works.

When you look at people that you objectively can say are hypnotized, they are right. They are they are they are reading into something and dationalizing it to fit a narrative for a team. And we've been bifurcated into two teams. And that's not how the world works. Just like I rejected physics initially because I wanted everything to be black and white, one or zero. The same is true with human personality and human goals. When we were growing up, probably everybody here when we had political discussions with different opinions, you know, oh yeah, you got some liberal opinion there, buddy. Or you you sound like a commodin conservative cigar chomper. You know, today it's you're ready to go to war.

And there's reasons for that because the teams have been co-opted by people in power to obscure what they're actually doing, right? And the people who are victimized of it on all sides are playing the part to make sure that the dust is going back and forth and you don't see the left hand of the magician while the right hand is is playing upon it. So those are the things that we're going to be facing.

Okay. I want to I want to get to the good part at the end or at least what you think the path forward really looks like for people. But you know the next part I think that I remember is the going through the stages of grief. And as I [snorts]

Yeah. What I took away was that you think we all need to go through that in the sense of losing our our identity as it relates to having a career or having work be a core part of what our value is. Um and you know both dealing with trauma and going through the stages of grief I think are difficult things. So you're asking a lot of people.

Yeah. Um but let's let's assume we do that you know and we come out the other side. We've dealt with it and we've gotten to acceptance. Um and by that I think what you were saying is you need to accept that work isn't your purpose anymore and that um you know there's you you have to find a different purpose essentially but that you know you you can't depend on your contribution as at least as you knew it before in the sense of doing your routine tasks or you know that your production was kind of your measure of tell you that that's going to be gone.

But let's say we do accept that. Um, where do we go from there? And then we'll take some questions.

Yeah. Um, I I urge everybody that to read The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. It's very thick. It's a hard book. I know I told everybody to read The User Illusion. I hope some people are reading that. But Joseph Campbell is going to open up your mind about the archetypes that we all have in our in our subconscious. They the they are called youngian archetypes. They are across all generations. They're across all cultures. And Joseph Campbell looked at all the mythologies and myths of all these cultures and tied them together into the mono myth and the hero's journey which we are all on whether we know it or not. And I've tied the uh 5,000 days series to the mono myth so that you can actually have a guide a map. So, Elizabeth Kubler Ross um and the five stages of grief is a really good mythology and a really good method uh because it's been around before her is that you have to

understand that you're a caterpillar and the caterpillar goes in to a cocoon and its entire body is eaten alive by acid and it comes out. It comes out as what? Comes out as a butterfly. And when you when you actually look at that and you say, "Okay, that's the metamorphosis. That's a transformation." You know, everybody goes through this in their life to some degree anyway, right? But this is happening across all cultures all at once. If you live in India right now and you were working at um a data center, AI just took your job and that was your that was your leg up.

Now none of us are living in India right now and we don't work at a data center but um a few hundred million people do and right now most of the AI topline AI from claude code uh chatpt they can code better than mid-grade programmers in India boom gone now that guy is going to go home one day to his wife and kids built his entire life on the narrative he is given his job's gone. Now there's already our suicides in India because of this. It's going to climb. I have met people who have gone through this. I spent my life trying to study this. So it's not a new thing to me.

It's one of the many themes that I've been studying because I knew we were going to get here. Um you have to grieve. I'm not saying you're not going to work. We're going to work for the rest of our lives. That's fine. We're going to choose the work that we do that is going to honor our existence. And if that means you're going to be a farmer, a plumber, because I also in the series talk about blueco collar jobs taking off like a rocket. And people are going to choose to do that because they love doing it, not because it's putting food on their table. Now I I have some friends who are who are in these trades and say, "I'm never going to love doing it." until you really talk to them and then you realize that they love doing it and if they had to stop doing it, they would feel lost.

But if you're doing a knowledge job, AI is going to replace you. And that's a reality. If you're

Brian, I just want to say that that solves a problem. I mean, so maybe that's a weird way of solving a

Oh, we lost. Whoops. Yep. There we go. Maybe that's um Are you back, Brian? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Maybe that's a way of like the universe solving a massive crisis we have where we don't have people doing bluecollar and we can't build, we can't grow the infrastructure, everything. So maybe it's going to suck for a while for people, but maybe it will show people like you better pick a different direction. Maybe college isn't the answer and maybe learning a trade is the way to go.

You're absolutely right, uh, Erica. So imagine, and this is going to suck, I have kids that are college age, right? You get on a train and you spent a lot of money for the ticket and you're going to go to this destination and that ticket's 100,000, 200, three, $400,000. And then while you're on the train, the destination disappears because law, radiology, medical, um, all of these all these jobs that as parents, oh, I can't wait till my kid becomes a doctor or a lawyer, whatever. The the the that's gone. That is absolutely gone. And the people who are on that train right now, they're screwed. And there's nobody coming for them. Do do we really want somebody to come for us? By the way, do we want the government to come say, [snorts] "I'm sorry. I'll fix it."

They're not going to fix it. They don't even They don't know what we know right now. I I I'm I'm being very plain with you. They I have conversations with people in government who are saying they're in kindergarten. They're not even able to comprehend the economic impact of what this means because the economic impact means money becomes worthless. And I don't we don't have time to talk about that. But all the kings that are sitting on these great thrones of money, they realize that that money is going to become devalued much more than inflation ever did. And that the the levers of control are going to change. Whether we like it or not, it's happening. Now the question is, is it going to happen in the west or is it going to happen in China? That's the real question. So when you are becoming Ned Lud at a lite and taking out your baseball bat to take the next Tesla robot because you don't want these

clankers in your world. Good. China just won another score because they are doing that. They are openly embracing this and oh good for them. Well, when they send 20 million of these over clanking across America and yeah, we I'm get my shotgun out. I'll get EMP. Fine. Whatever you think, man. The the reality is if you choose to become a lite that means you choose your future and the lites didn't make it through that future right they they fell behind the candle makers said I'm not going to give up my candle I'm going to candle light my house forever their house might have burned down when the Edison light came to be able to face this I'm not saying I love this folks I'm not saying that don't get mad at me that I'm giving some realities. The reality is the wave is coming. You choose. It's dawn patrol.

You get on the surfboard or you wash out. I didn't choose the wave. Yeah. I'm I I feel some guilt because I've always been in tech and I've been cheering on tech. But we're are now facing the wave. So the question is get out of the denial phase, right? The five stages of grief. Elizabeth Kubler Ross. We have to get out of the denial phase as quickly as we can. I don't want anybody to grieve the wrong way. I mean, it's sad because I'm using that to deal with Scott leaving us, right? It's a process. You don't need a professional.

You might need a group. If you don't have a group, get a group and not just online. I like the fact there are meetups. You need real people face to face that you can see and hang out with. Do it now in your church, in your community. I don't care. I I I really think you need to align yourself into some philosophical system. If you don't, you know, um I all I know is anybody that gets deep enough in science becomes religious. That's a fact. They may not openly say that, but that's what happens. So, if you're already there, thank you. If you're not, get there. Um you you you have to do this because it won't be done for you. Mother bird is not going to chew the food for you and feed you. And what is going to happen? A lot of our friends who are very conservative are going to beg for government intervention to stop this. Tax the heck out of those damn robots. That'll fix it. And somebody in China is laughing their ass

off. Sorry. Uh they're saying, "Oh yeah, it works. This is the world we're in now. We have to choose how we are going to deal with it. I'm giving you 5,000 days. I'm giving you the early warning. I rang the bell. I tried to do it 10 years ago and I look even more bizarre. But you guys are the early one half of 1%. And it's incumbent upon you to help the people around you and to have grace because they're not ready for it just like we aren't. But you are already expert in it just in this conversation than most people are because they just they're in complete denial. They don't even know that the body is dead and it hasn't fallen over yet.

They just think it's still alive and the worms are controlling and it's a zombie. You know

what I took away from your latest post I think was that one path is to become the conductor of the AI to really embrace the tools, become an expert in using them and also focus on the human aspects that AIs are not good at. meaning being a taste maker, being a curator, being able to maybe run the AI 10 times and say that's the one out of the 10, that's the good one. Um, you know, it's similar to what Scott would say about how he can just intuitively know when something's funny. And he might have a lot of ideas, but it was, you know, he would be the one that says this is this is the good one. And that's something that, you know, not everyone's good at, but you might have some natural talent in a particular field or in a particular area where you've developed that intuition and you can know what the right thing is. And if you have that expertise, then that may be a durable skill that you could leverage with AI and use a bunch

of AI workers to go carry out your tasks. But you'd be the one making the conducting decisions, saying, "Okay, this is the task that should be done now, and these are the good results. these are the bad results and becoming kind of the the top of the ch top of the food chain. And then the other one was more of what I think of as kind of like just a bridge, but you know, go go become an electrician or a plumber and then it's going to take longer for it to get there. But, you know, ultimately that may only last for another, let's say, 30 years. But it's something that's also a lot harder for AI to do because they may never build a robot that can go under your sink and you know fix your particular sink because it's unique in the world.

Are there other things or are those the two primary ones you see? Oh and you you you bring some great great points you know um we we again we have to define our lives uh that gives value in our life. You want to know what everybody can do right now? become a better dad, become a better mom, become a better friend, become a better lover, spouse. These are human skills that you now are going to have more time to spend with it because that's what humanity did for 99.9% of our existence before the industrial revolution. We were better parents. We were better spouses. We were better at being a village that cared for each other. Not in some manifesto Karl Marx socialist type of way, but in a real loving way because love is the theme that has been the cohesive force that makes humanity stay together. And we just have [snorts] hallmarked it and commercialized it to make it almost repulsive like a really bad perfume. It's like, h,

it would smelled good in the drop, but man, you know, this is what we need to be able to do. And it's going to be hard for some folks because they're so used to putting their nose to the grindstoneone. I got other things. I got my career. Well, you don't got a career anymore. Okay, now what? My legacy. Your legacy is how you touch people. Your legacy is how you interact. What time did you spend when you are in your bed? in your last minutes. You're not going to you're not going to care about that report that you did. You're not going to care about, you know, that that gear that you made so perfect.

You're going to care about the people that have touched you and you have touched. And do you want to be the richest person in the in in the the graveyard? Cool. Big. That's great. Um, guess what? Everybody's name that you know today that is famous will not be known a thousand years from now.

So whatever we've been driven by to make ourselves I'll show them because most of us guys I'll show them because we have to prove our worth. It is our programming. When we're born we pop out. We're not perfect. We're not beautiful. We got to go and prove our worth. Now that's being taken away from a lot of men. This is going to be a crisis for a lot of guys because it's built into our DNA. I don't want to get into the sexist kind of thing, but it is the reality. It's built into the DNA. And all of a sudden, you take our purpose for existence, we are lost souls.

That means that our purpose was wrong. What was our purpose for 99% of our existence? Guess what? We're going to start rediscovering that. And Owen points out, you know, can you become a plumber if you're a lawyer? Damn straight you can.

Is it is it less honorable? No, no. The the problem was that we made it dishonorable to begin with.

It's the most honorable thing. And the the the ivory tower world, remember, they created this world where you have these hierarchies

of you spend a few hundred,000, you get this credential, now you get the the the the gold uh you know, the gold ring. It's because it's the world that they created. It's their credit card system. You go in through it, then you get out of it and you get recognized. Guess what? For 99% of our existence, that's not how we judged a hierarchy. We judged it by empirical results. How are our communities working? The communities that didn't work, they didn't get to reproduce. They didn't get to survive. We are the victors by the very reality that we exist. The ones that didn't have the right programming, they didn't exist. The ivory tower will tell you it's survival of the fittest. It is survival of the most able to adapt. That is what Charles Darwin said. And talk about reframing. We've been victimized by that concept. It is not doggy dog. It is not the struggle. It is not I'm going to elbow this guy and I'm gonna elbow

this guy to get ahead. It is the ability to adapt to a changing environment. We are the only species that I know of that have born naked. And really understand this. We are not of our environment. We are the changers of our environment. A rabbit is a rabbit. When it's born, it's already born into his environment. If we are born in most of the world and we don't find invention and creativity, we will either starve or freeze. We as humans, our directive from God is to go out there and invent and to build safety. The very first thing we do is build a wall around ourselves to protect us from the outside. That is natural.

Anybody telling you not to do that is antihuman and has does not understand history. You need protection because we are vulnerable because we are born naked. It is not rocket science, right? The very one of the very first things we did, mostly guys, first was to get a loin cloth for freak's sake because we could get ourselves in trouble running around the woods without a loin cloth. So, we built clothes. That was one of our first inventions. We didn't invent fire. We captured fire from the Prometheus story. We saw fire and said, "Oo, that keeps us warm. Oh, that makes our food taste a little better or maybe not have so many maggots in it, right?

It makes flesh easier to eat or should we be eating flesh? I don't know. All these things were going on long before we ever came about, right? We're going back to that operating system.

We're going to back to our traditional roles. Right? If the 1950s, well, really it was World War II that brought the idea of breaking up the family unit as a solid structure and that emergency we call World War II said, "Okay, Rosie the Riveter." Now, I'm not talking about the phil philosophy of suffraism and and and Bernay and what he did with his freedom sticks. There's a sideline to this. I'm talking about the most solid unit that humanity has ever created was the family. And the thing that almost everybody in power wants to do is make sure the family doesn't work.

And we're all hypnotized by that function. And all I'm doing is looking at the objective truth of how we got here. We did not get here by the phil philosophical systems that we're using today. In fact, it's objectively proven that those philosophies have failed because we are now going deevolution. We are going in reverse. Right? When you start deevolving, you realize that the philosophical underpinnings that you're using are no longer valid. And you have somebody has to say the emperor is naked,

right? And that's where we are. AI is just going to magnify that. So redefine who you are. Um, I can't tell you who you are, but I can tell you that there will never be another person like you ever born.

Amen. Brian, um, I we we only have an absolute miracle. And oh, sorry. I'm giving you a Hallmark. Oh.

Um, we only have a few minutes left and we promised people we were going to ask questions, but you were just cooking so well and we wanted to hear everything you said. I know Marcela said she wrote down questions for you for next time and I think Sergio did too. and Sergio Marcel, if you forgive me, I just want to ask Brian because this is very important to Scott, his estate, to us, to our future, that we just take the last few moments to talk about something that's happening right now, um that a lot of you know, and that's about, you know, using somebody's likeness, intellectual property, intelligence, everything um for AI that you don't own.

So Brian can speak more eloquently about this, but I just wanted to use this last time.

Computer is dying. Oh, okay. [clears throat] He So you guys know that there's just been, you know, people across the board that want to make a clone of Scott or Scott's son or Scott's dog or whatever. Um, and Brian has written about this and thought about this extensively. And I just think it's important to listen to someone um who is on the forefront of this and like he said he already thought about the problem and worked it backwards. Um, so he he said he would speak to us about that for the last few minutes and he's coming back again and again and again and we're going to do a long form interview with Brian in um on locals exclusively and that will be so much participation like we'll all be able to ask questions. Um Sergio, did you want to chime in at all before we get there?

You're on mute. Still Sergio's mute is undefeated. You're on mute on Rumble. All right, he got it. [snorts]

Oh, Sergio, we don't hear you. You're on mute on There you go. Okay, we have great questions on YouTube. Amazing um questions from Annie. Uh

we have to ask them next time though. But unfortunately, next time. Yeah. Next time. But I'm gonna pass them to you guys. Uh I just wanted to say that we have good questions and I'll pass them on.

Yeah. Uh so yeah. Do you want me to Oh, you know what too, you guys. Um everyone, um Sergio, will you drop Brian's handle in the YouTube chat and we'll do it here. And please feel free to message Brian also because maybe he can answer this. And yeah.

Yeah. I'm I'm going to send him the questions and I think I'm gonna interview him myself. I'm gonna have an interview just to ask him questions, you know, because I have like so many questions.

Oh, don't we all? Well, we're gonna do a long form here on Scott's Locals. I mean, like I'm talking on the side, you know, maybe. I don't know.

Okay. Um, so, all right, we might not get Brian back, you guys. And I know he's bummed because he wanted to talk about this. So, why don't we have him on again? We could Brian, I see your question. You know what? We um we want to make sure we can go long sometimes and we'll set up for that. Um but we didn't do that today and we like to make sure the guests know that they have an in andout time in case they need to plan the rest of their day. You know, for Scott, he could just go on as long as he wanted. Um but we will have Brian back on. Um maybe he can come back on next week and we'll start with your questions and that way we could even just do like a question and answer show. Would that be fun for everybody?

We'll just do questions and answers. Um I think Yeah, Brian's very interesting. Yeah, I think that would be great too because so many of us have questions

there. Oh, Brian, did you hear anything we just said? We we're committing you to like extra long shows for questions and answers.

She's all over the place. I don't know what happened. Um, so I was telling them we're going to do a longer Oh, we're we lost him again. That we're going to do a longer form interview. If you can hear me with you and let's see if he comes back, you guys. Oh, good. Thanks for following him y'all. Uh, okay. Oh, Brian's back. Okay, Brian. Oh, look at he's our technological genius. There he is. Can you hear us?

Did I crash this system? What's going on? I mean, it's your energy. It's your aura. I just um wanted to let you know I committed you to a long form interview on locals um specifically because we have so many questions. Um so, we're going to we're going to schedule you in for that, okay? because we're going to just do questions and answers on locals. Um, but if you could just take five minutes to talk about the AI

I'd be honored. Thank you. Okay, go ahead. Um, okay. So, okay. Quite a long time ago, I kind Can you hear me?

Yeah. No. Hello. Oh, now we can. going on. I know. Can you hear me? Okay. Are we good?

Yes. You appear to be frozen, but we can hear you. All right. Now you're moving. Okay. [snorts]

Good. Okay. All right. I'm frozen a lot. Um, I really think we as a society need to understand who owns our likeness, who owns our face, our body. our DNA, our voice, uh even our gut microbiome. I I think it's vital that we have this conversation and do it as soon as possible because if we don't own ourselves, then who are we? Um otherwise, that's known as being a slave.

You have to have sol self- sovereignty. And if you don't have that and you don't have it organized within the structure of a legal system, um you have immense chaos. And I think recent events with AI and likenesses are really important to start thinking in these terms. And I invite everybody to think in those terms because the the world doesn't get to own us. You own yourself. And if you want to do the math and the logic about it, any other way does not work. It does not serve society. It does not serve any single person. Um and um that's I think I can go into a lot more of it, but in a very short period of time I I wrote a declaration about five six years ago, who owns me.

You can look in my Twitter feed, XF um just type in who owns you and you can kind of see my whole rant about that. Uh I even like I said wrote a preamble and declaration of self ownership um in the most ironic way. Um we got to really think about that and it's really easy to use this cut and paste technology that we have right now with even just the last five years let alone generative a AI. You don't want that world ahead unless you can claim ownership and rights to your own your own being. I

I think uh it's important for people to understand that these are these are just puppets. There are puppets that look and sound like someone, but there's a puppet master feeding at words. Okay? It's not the words of the person. And that is very dangerous. Imagine, imagine Brian isn't with us one day and think how brilliant Brian is and all the work and energy he put into creating all of this and then he's not with us one day and someone's like, "Well, there's, you know, hundreds and hundreds of hours of him and I've got his voice cloned and I'm just going to make him say what I want." And what if it changes everything Brian's ever worked for? You know, that that just cannot be allowed to stand.

It has such an important thing because um our likeness is going to be used whether we like it or not. Uh but there needs to be a structure that allows us to address this and it has to be very clearly defined. Um I mean there are some laws where people uh make pornography into people and you know their their legal repercussions. [snorts] That's not enough. It it's got to go into detail. We form governments to protect individuals from groups and groups from individuals, right? That's why we do that. So, I'm not asking for an oppressive government. I'm not asking for oppressive laws. I'm asking for the reason why we organize as a government to do these things. And for somebody to commercialize it, number one, that's a big problem, especially a well-known individual. Um, for somebody to have editorial control, because I can tell you right now, AI is good, but unless you are really good at training an AI,

it's going to say stuff that a person would never actually say. And I'll leave you with this one notion. I have something called savewisdom.org. This is a thousand questions. It's a monumental thing where you just are saying your answers in your own voice into your own recorder that never goes on the internet. I urge everybody to start doing that today because your wisdom is valuable. The ownership of your wisdom is valuable. And I say it's time to not give it to uh you know, social media and anybody else. Record it. And at the very least, if you don't use it in an AI project that's local, you could share it with your loved ones.

You could share it with your family. And I wouldn't share it while you're doing it because I want you to really answer those questions with all the intensity and emotions that you should because that's what you're trying to capture. And in the process of doing that, you discover yourself. And it's very important. And it's app propo to the 5,000 days because you really got to get to know who the heck you are because we're so busy trying to put food in our belly and a roof over our head. We lost the compass of who we really are and we need to get back to that.

Yes, I agree. Thank you. So those two things are interconnected and I hope maybe in the future we could talk about the implications of somebody stealing the likeness of an individual and what it really means for all of us. We also need to to discuss that, you know, somebody could be paying somebody who knows how to do it to put words in that person's mouth and to change the course of history of the future and what their thoughts were. So, you know, you said it perfectly before when we were speaking. You know, I said this also um on here that, you know, oh, it starts with, oh, isn't this fun and I miss this person and it's making jokes and oh, I like, you know, I like hearing it and oh, look, it's talking to me and whatever. And then the next thing you know, it starts talking about elections or talking about wars or talking about politics and now you're so used to this thing that you're thinking that this is

really that person's opinion. And it's easy how quickly you can become brainwashed.

It is instantaneous and and um I think uh somebody like Scott actually knew this very well.

Yes. If you read enough of his books, you realize that you can get hypnotized into believing this. And I I I believe if you look at the nuances of what he said in the past, uh he was predicting that this is going to be uh somewhat of a crisis. and my interactions with him over X and and and such with AI, he was very concerned over what this really means. Sometimes you just throw your hands up and you say, "Oh, well," but I think deep down inside all of us have to start thinking,

well, we don't want to be victimized by this. We need to start making decisions. And and and again, I I I I really think we need to as a group be very thoughtful in the way this is composed. I I you know listen parody and and and things like that. Yeah, there there are provisions that allow that already. But for outright ownership and the outright uh re redoing of what somebody has done in their life and slightly shifting the words to the point they are 180 degrees from where they started because that's what happens. It's a slow drift

unless the people who really care about it have been entrusted. Like if you entrust Disney entrusted his legacy and look what happened to Disney, do you think Walt Disney would be very happy with the Disney he sees today? No matter what you may think of Disney in the past, he is a very interesting character. But he certainly is not the Disney of 1960 is not the Disney of 2026.

That's right. Right. So that look at what happened there. this is going to happen magnified by a thousand as AI uh likenesses start taking over. So we really understand it.

Thank you for taking the extra time to talk about that and we'll definitely get into it more as we go on and we um yeah we you got we have a oh where where do we find the thousand questions? Okay, Marcela put it in the comments. Um so that's something to consider. You guys take the time to do that. Yeah, it'll be interesting to really get to know yourself. You think you know, but do you? So, Brian, thank you so so much. And we um are forever grateful to you and it's been so um it's been so I can't even think of the word like even more enlightening than everything I knew about you. And over the years, you know, I've I've always communicated with you on X and you know, I it's just so fun getting to talk to you now and getting to know you better. And I think this chat is uh learning a lot. Like there are such smart people and they're always craving knowledge and to know more and you're really bringing that to this

group and we're so thankful and we're so thankful that you're willing and agreeable to come back again and again and again.

Well, I Erica, I'm honored. I I I I love you guys. I love Scott's audience. Uh I I think we're all part of a a really big group. uh let's call it uh Scott's tribe. I don't know. Yeah. Uh the bottom line is

Scott's debris. We've been saying our debris. Right. So I I I I really got to thank you guys because um I don't know what the world would look like if this group didn't exist,

right? If if what Scott did and the group that surrounded him did not exist because sometimes, well, always, it takes a single light to make a dark room have a light. and all the darkness in the world can't put that light out

and you guys are the light and I really appreciate it. Thank you. And to you as well, same thing. Same exact thing. [gasps] Well, we will schedule our next one soon because we do want to do a Q&A with you. And um until then, I'll be chatting with you. But thank you so much, Brian. And everybody like Brian and I will do a closing sip. And um please go out there and be useful. Take the thousand question quiz. Get to know yourself and then be prepared to be patient while you help teach other people what's coming in 5,000 days or less now. All right, you guys. To Scott. Thank you, Shelly. And we will see you guys tomorrow. To Scott.

To Scott. Thank you. Thanks, Brian.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Episode 3093 - The Scott Adams School 02/12/26"?

Scott Adams (Guest), Erica (Guest), Brian Rameli (Guest), Owen Gregorian (Guest), Sergio (Guest), Marcela (Guest).

What is "Episode 3093 - The Scott Adams School 02/12/26" about?

The discussion features Erica and her co-hosts, including returning guest Brian Rameli, as they navigate a casual and humorous introduction to the "Scott Adams School." They remind listeners of the distinction between this show and "Coffee with Scott Adams," encourage subscriptions to Scott Adams' Locals channel for exclusive content, and reflect on the unpredictability of live broadcasting.

What is mentioned in this Real Coffee with Scott Adams episode?

11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Brian Rameli, Artificial Intelligence, Scott Adams, 5,000 days, Owen Gregorian, Scott's Locals. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Episode 3093 - The Scott Adams School 02/12/26"?

The episode runs 1 h 10 min; the transcript is about 11,659 words in 125 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated February 15, 2026.